The largest and most prestigious Soviet film studio during the era of the “Great Patriotic War” was Mosfilm in Moscow. It was in this premier studio that many of the landmarks of Russian cinema were imagined and produced. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, scripts and shooting scripts.
Primary source material on the peasantry and collectization of agriculture in the Sverdlovskaia oblast.
This collection of papers is part of the series "Leaders of the Russian Revolution" and comes from the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History (RtsKhIDNI), known until 1991 as the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875-1946) was a member of Union for Struggle of the Liberation of the Working Class, based in St. Petersburg and founder of the RDSRP.
This collection includes Smolensk regional records of the All-Union Communist Party (Vsesoiunaia Kommunisticheskaia Partiia) of the Soviet Union, from 1917 to 1941. The archive reflects the changing jurisdiction of the Smolensk Party headquarters over the years. Topics covered include: agriculture, machine-tractor stations, trade unions, industry, armed forces, censorship, and education.
This collection was originally published as Istoriia Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny Sovetskogo Souiuza 1941-1945 by the USSR Ministry of Defense and then translated into English by the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command. It includes the complete official Soviet history of World War II written by some 200 historians and army officers, and provides information on Soviet involvement in the war.
The collection includes a set of letters written from 1934-1939 by John N. Hazard to the Institute of Current World Affairs, during his sojourn in the Soviet Union, first as a law student and later as a visitor. Hazard was the first Anglo-American Harvard Law College graduate to pursue the full course of legal studies then being offered in Moscow. The collection also includes his course lecture and seminar notes: most of these are in English with key terms in Russian. These documents offer a unique portrait of Soviet life and legal education of that time period.
The collection of Gulag press publications from the Scientific Library of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow, covers the period 1920 to 1937. It contains prison journals from the 1920s; bulletins, newspapers, and literary and cultural journals from the 1930s; collections of short stories, poetry, music and posters; and various propaganda texts and fragments.
The collection includes 18th-century Russian publications, listed in the catalogue below (see link). It is a valuable source for the historical, political, social and intellectual study of 18th century Russia. It also includes non-Russian literature published in Russia in the 18th century and is a useful source for the study of Russian science, theatre, language, and the history of printing.
The systematic card catalogue of the Documentation Office for East European Law, University of Leiden
The collection of declassified documents from Fond no. 5 of RGANI consists of documents from different sections of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which in the 1950s and 1960s supervised Party development work, ideology, propaganda, science, education, culture, and agriculture in the RSFSR and other Soviet republics.